US 11,942,288 B2
Operation switch unit with operation support function, operation unit with operation support function, and operation support system
Takao Fukui, Osaka (JP); Yasuo Onishi, Osaka (JP); and Eiji Yoshii, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to IDEC CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/429,428
Filed by IDEC Corporation, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/007273
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/175413, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-034748 (JP), filed on Feb. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0130625 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. H01H 3/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/06 (2006.01); B25J 19/06 (2006.01); G05B 9/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/409 (2006.01); H01H 13/14 (2006.01); H01H 13/62 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 3/022 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 13/06 (2013.01); B25J 19/06 (2013.01); G05B 9/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/409 (2013.01); H01H 13/14 (2013.01); H01H 13/62 (2013.01); G05B 2219/50198 (2013.01); H01H 2003/0246 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation unit with an operation support function comprising:
a subordinate operation shaft releasably engageable with and coaxially aligned with a primary operation shaft of an external unit, said primary operation shaft being movably linked with an operation of an operation switch;
a detection part that detects a remote operation of said subordinate operation shaft; and
an actuating part that actuates said subordinate operation shaft on a basis of the remote operation detected by said detection part,
wherein an actuation of said actuating part causes said subordinate operation shaft to move in an axial direction, thereby causing said primary operation shaft along with said operation switch to be displaced in a same axial direction as said axial direction of said subordinate operation shaft.